Can I play a game with a graphics card lower than the minimum requirement?

[RatBug]

Hi, I will be getting a new laptop soon and was looking online at some games I was hoping to play, specifically Baldur's Gate 3, and the website I used to check if this laptop can run the game said that the graphics card doesn't meet the minimum requirement, will this mean that the game will not be able to run at all? or will it be a case of having to have my settings quite low? the graphics card on the laptop I was looking at getting is an Intel UHD Graphics (I don't know if its anything else specific, I can't find info on it).

thanks in advance

[Jerry]

In the specific case of compatibility, it might be best to ask in the game forum; someone might know.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1086940/discussions/

In general, most often developers leave a little wiggle room below their minimum requirements, so it is at least worth a gamble. Things only get really critical, if your hardware can not perform specific tasks, that the game needs to do. However, glitched out textures can happen more often, especially with internal graphic cards, and those can range from "looks a little odd" to "is this scrambled thing there an enemy, a tree or a quest marker?".

Steam has a refund window of 2 weeks ownership and 2 hours playtime (combined over all times, you had the game on your account). And it's pretty much exactly for such cases, where a game might or might not run on your system.

[Crazy Tiger]

There is no real set answer to that. I've played many games on potato laptops, games that exceeded the hardware I had. They ran fine for me, but I'm not one who cares about 60+fps or great graphics.

As said, ask in the game hub. Plenty of times games have minimum specs because that was the lowest the devs used and can guarantee, not the lowest actually possible. But only the game devs can answer that.

[Satoru]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0WNDqGwrSU

Understand that you generally will encounter problems if you try to run any game outside of the minimum requirements. If yoiu do not understand the specs of the laptop you intend to use, I highly recommend you DO NOT do this. As you will lack the skills or the knowledge to do any troubleshooting